This is the moment a burglar knocks himself out as he tries to break into the office of a mechanic's garage.

The criminal is seen falling to the ground as he drops through the roof of Panteg Garage in Llanelli, South Wales, but misses the top of the office.

The footage shows him lying unconscious for three minutes before one of his accomplices rouses him and they run off.

CCTV footage captured the moment a burglar fell to the ground as he attempted to break into an garage

Garage co-owner Lee Jenkins believes the masked intruder had kicked through a fibre-glass roof panel and was attempting to land on the office roof.

But instead his head off the side of the office as he falls around 20ft as rubble crashes down on top of him.

Mr Jenkins, 32, said: 'It was a very nasty fall - I certainly would not have liked to have taken it myself. He was knocked clean out for almost five minutes and needed to be brought round by his friend.

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'Even as he was helped back out the roof, he looked very dazed and confused still, very wobbly on his feet.

'It did have us laughing at the footage for a while. It felt a bit like karma biting back to be honest.

'Though as funny as his fall his, there is a serious side to the video too.. We're an independent local garage and it is very frustrating to be targeted in this way.

'We think it is someone who has visited the garage at some point to scout it out as they must have known about the office inside and hoped to land on there - but he clearly misjudged it.'

The hapless criminal was laying unconscious for three minutes for an accomplice roused him

The man was trying to jump from the roof of this garage to the office, visible inside the building

When apprentice Sammy Francis opened up the garage the next morning, he came across the glass but mistook it for wind damage and cleaned it up.

Mr Francis, 21, who has been working at the garage for two years, said: 'It was really bad weather the night before so I thought the damage was done by that. I didn't want customers to see it so I cleaned it up before Lee came in.

'Then Lee decided to check the CCTV. It was quite spooky really as the garage was very still and then this dust appeared and suddenly a man falls from the roof.

'It had us all laughing at first at how stupid the guy's fall was but then we realised it was a break-in and it was actually quite serious. It did frustrate us all that someone would do this.

'I've had a bit of stick from the others about clearing up the mess as that then turned out to be evidence.'

Police have confirmed that they are investigating the incident, which occurred between midnight and 1am on Thursday March 3.